Do you think that the media coverage that has been given to the climate change crisis has made the youth of the nation cynical to the actual severity of the situation?
It's possible. I think around the release of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, there was a very strong catastrophe narrative in news coverage that followed. This narrative opened claims made by advocates and by journalists to counter-charges of alarmism. I wrote about this in a paper published last year at the journal Environment:
It's possible. I think around the release of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, there was a very strong catastrophe narrative in news coverage that followed. This narrative opened claims made by advocates and by journalists to counter-charges of alarmism. I wrote about this in a paper published last year at the journal Environment:
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